I was in shock today when I found out Disney had bought the rights to Star Wars.
And guess what? Disney announced STAR WARS SEVEN WOULD COME OUT IN 2015!!!
Of course, it won't be as good as the original ones. First off, the actors are all way older now.
Plus, it's combined with Disney. Disney's an awesome company, but I'm not sure a movie like Star Wars is something they can take on. How will it end? Darth Vader riding of into the sunset?
Guess what I watched yesterday?
Inside A Cartoonist's mind takes on....
(Yes, that's me in the picture.) Review time!
The Hunger Games (2012)
In the future, the Capitol has taken over. America is broken into 12 districts, and each year, two kids from each district are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a bloodbath where kids have to fight each other to death, not unlike phys-ed in school. When teenager Katniss Everdeen is chosen to fight in the games, will she make it out alive?
Rating: 10 stars (out of a possible 10)! This is one of the best movies of the year.
Fun Fact: I heard that this grossed more than ALL the Harry Potter movies.
Reccomended For: People who read the book first. If you haven't read the book, don't see this. Why? Because it doesn't explain what's going on. You have to read the book to understand the movie.
Yesterday and today I watched many movies. Here are the reviews:
Knock Knock (Woody Woodpecker cartoon, 1940)
Yes, I know this isn't a movie, but it was shown in a theater at the time so it counts. This is the very first Woody Woodpecker cartoon where a panda named Papa Panda and his son Andy try to get rid of a pesky woodpecker named Woody (duh) voiced by MEL BLANC!!!
Rating: 10 stars (out of a possible 10). This is part of what toons used to be like, my friend, before they became slightly more realistic.
Reccomended For: All toon lovers!
Looney Tunes! Back In Action (2003)
They're back and looney (a word blogger doesn't have in their spelling dictionary) as ever! The evil company Acme wants to find the rare Blue Monkey diamond, a jewel capable of turning people into simians, while Daffy Duck has just been fired by Warner Bros and Bugs Bunny convinces them to get him back. But Daffy and his new pal DJ are searching for the Blue Monkey! A tale of Chaos with all the lovable characters (and an old guy that Taz eats).
Rating: 9 stars. It's a very good movie, but the plot is slightly ripped off from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Originality takes away a point. (Sorry, guys.)
Reccomended For: Everybody who grew up with Bugs and Daffy, especially those who would like to see Daffy finally save Bugs and the rest of the world.
UHF (1989)
"Weird Al" Yankovic writes and stars in this hilarious comedy as George Newman, and imaginative man who keeps getting fired from every job he has. But when he gets the deed to UHF TV channel U62, will he keep it running or will the evil RJ Fletcher of rival channel 8 ruin his job?
Rating: 8 Stars! This superb movie is awesome! The only reason I'm putting eight stars down is because I'm afraid if I put more the people who get offended by this movie will stop reading my blog.
Reccomended For: Slapstick comedy lovers and Weird Al fanatics alike.
Shredderman Rules! (2007)
Based on the book "Shredderman" which I read when I was young. This is how the movie caught my eye in the first place a few years ago. Nolan Byrd is fed up with bully Bubba Bixby's cruel antics, so he decides to put a website against him up using the alias "Shredderman". But this website soon starts havoc when Nolan decides to take a jab at more powerful people, and they want to know who Shredderman is! Will he remain safe or be busted?
Rating: 7 stars. Great movie! It has a cast of multiple celebrities.
Reccomended For: Everybody who has been bullied and even slightly understands technology.
The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle (2000)
Yes, the old show......BUT IT'S A MOVIE NOW!!! It's a really big shame that no one watched it; it's a GREAT movie for Rocky and Bullwinkle fans. Rocky and Bullwinkle's enemies, Boris, Natasha, and Fearless Leader, escape from their cartoon home Frostbite Falls and try to take over the world. Naturally, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and the narrator from the old cartoons get sucked into the real world and attempt to stop them with the help of FBI agent Sympathy. (Yes, that's her last name. "Sympathy".)
Rating: 9 stars. It would have been even better if Sherman and Peabody (their co-stars) made a cameo.
Reccomended For: Rocky and Bullwinkle fans of all ages!
He's A Bully, Charlie Brown (2006)
When I was six years old, I tuned in to see the WORLD PREMIERE of "He's A Bully, Charlie Brown" on TV. I taped it, of course. Today I was watching this tape, and it was AWESOME. When Charlie Brown and friends go to summer camp, they run into a bully named Joe Agate. He steals all of Rerun's (Linus and Lucy's brother) marbles, and Charlie Brown vows to win them back. Will he do it? Yes. Sorry if that ruined anything....
Rating: 10 stars! Peanuts will always be the master of cartoons.
Four months ago, I started this blog.
Most four-month-old blogs would only have about 123 pageviews by now, but not this one!
I am VERY proud to say that when I logged on to blogger today, Inside A Cartoonist's Mind (or ICM for short) had one-thousand and three pageviews! (So I'm OVER the thousand mark.)
I'd like to thank everybody who viewed my blog over the last four months, so thanks to the following countries:
Canada, USA, UK, Korea, Greece, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands, and Guatemala!
The best part is, blogger doesn't count my OWN pageviews, so NONE of this is me spell-checking!
By the way, read this blog tomorrow for SEVERAL movie (and Woody Woodpecker cartoon) reviews!
As the debates ended yesterday (thank the lord), I have a few what-ifs that just might have made the debates more interessting.
Inside A Cartoonist's Mind exclusively brings you...
Hey!
It's your humble blog writer, Cartoonist Guy.
Anyhow, you know all those war books they publish with true confessions?
I found a rejected one!
Inside A Cartoonist's Mind exclusively brings you:
During the first presidential debate of 2012, Obama got creamed.
What if he tweeted throughout his creaming?
Inside A Cartoonist's Mind exclusively brings you his tweets:
With all of the vampire stuff around now such as Twilight, Vampire Diaries, True Blood and so on, I think it's sad that I'm saying Hotel Transylvania is my favorite.
Wanna see some shameless plugs for my blog?
Then, here you go:
First off, Inside A Cartoonist's Mind, or ICM for short, has a YouTube channel. It's really my old YouTube channel, but now it's almost 100% ICM! Click here to visit it.
You may wonder what I need a YouTube channel for. Well, obviously promo videos like THIS ONE I MADE ON GOANIMATE:
You can also expect to see an ICM eBook and an ICM album coming within the next year or so! The eBook will be for Amazon Kindles and most likely Kindle Fires too for VERY cheap (or possibly free)! The album will also most likely be free.
There.
I have inserted FOUR shameless plugs. I hope you're happy.
Two days ago, I heard one of the greatest things EVER on the news.
A "Peanuts" movie will be released in November 2015!
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but Charles Schulz is my all-time hero and Peanuts is THE greatest thing in the world, in my opinion.
But then I had a horrible thought.
What if the movie was MODERNIZED?!
Please don't do this!
One of the best things about Peanuts is that it doesn't have iPads and FaceBook and all that stuff.
To prove my point, I drew the WORST possible things this movie could have....
This holiday season we can look forward to two movies-"Rise Of The Guardians" and "Wreck-It Ralph".
Since "Rise Of The Guardians" is yet ANOTHER movie about fighting fear, nobody would really care about their deleted scenes.
But maybe you would care about the rejects from "Wreck-It Ralph".
Inside A Cartoonist's Mind brings you these EXCLUSIVE scenes (click on them to enlarge)-
TV, have I got a show for you!
Since people are addicted to watching people run from the cops due to drug crimes, and others are addicted to a singing purple dinosaur, why not entertain them both?
I bring you......
So, this show is about Barney making chocolate bars. But they taste so good that the CIA has declared them illegal! So now Barney is illegally dealing chocolate bars to the public while trying not to get caught.
If you use my idea, I get royalty and $1,000 for every five seconds of the show.
Have you ever heard of Jim Henson's "Dinosaur"?
It was a heartwarming series made by the creator of "The Muppets" and "Sesame Street".
It's about a dinosaur family living with a baby.
Guess how the series ends?
THEY ALL DIE.
EVEN THE BABY.
Apparently the dino dad was super careless, so they all freeze to death.
It doesn't show this, but it says it happens a few minutes after the show ends.
Can you imagine if Jim Henson also chose to end the Muppets this way?
Miss Piggy:Kermie, what's happening?
Kermit:We're all gonna die! Yaaaaaaaaay!
Fozzie: Can you save me a fork for when we bite the dust? Wocka wocka!
I've just realized you don't know me well.
Here's a profile!
Name: Cartoonist Guy (Yes, I'm using an alias.)
Hero: Charles Schulz
Occupation: Cartoonist
Blog?: Yes. Duh.
Instruments: Accordion, harmonica, and trumpet.
Favorite color: Blue
Gender: Male
And, here is a cartoon of me!
This blog is about what goes on inside my head, and other stuff.
Interesting fact about me: In 1964 and 1968, MAD Magazine sold "Alfred E. Neuman for president" pins. They didn't sell all of them, so anyone with a two-year subscription to MAD gets an ACTUAL ONE FROM THE '60'S! (NOT A REPRODUCTION!) I got a two-year subscription, and now I proudly own one of these pins.
You can expect a lot of great (and mediocre) things to come on this blog.
So stay tuned!
I got a Weird Al book!
(My favorite singer!)
Review time.
Weird Al: The Book
By Nathan Rabin and Al Yankovic
What
It's About: Weird Al's history. It has exclusive photos, tweets,
lyrics, and information about his songs and many more. Perfect for any
Weird Al fan.
Cost: US: $29.95 CAN: $32.95 UK: $18.99
Rating
(out of a possible ten stars): Ten! One of the best books on the face
of Earth. Provides important info such as when Al dies, he would like to
prevent his obituary headlines from being "Weird Al eats it"!
Next up.....I got an accordion!
(While we're on the topic of Weird Al, it seemed appropriate to mention.)
So you can expect a lot of accordion things on this blog soon.
And last, but not least, I saw for the first time my favorite movie...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Plot:
The year is 1947. Stereotypical squash-and-stretch cartoon character
Roger Rabbit is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme, the head of Acme.
Roger enlists the help of detective Eddie Valiant to help him be prove
innocent!
Rating: Ten! The best movie ever! Features cameos with cartoon characters such as:
-Mickey Mouse
-Donald Duck
-Goofy
-Minnie Mouse
-Tinkerbell
-Pinnochio
-Dumbo
-The cast of "Fantasia"
-Peter Pan
-Brer Bear
-Bugs Bunny
-Daffy Duck
-Porky Pig
-Tweety
-Sylvester
-Wil E. Coyote
-Roadrunner
-Woody Woodpecker
-Betty Boop
-Droopy Dog
-Spike
-And sooooooo much more, I lost count.
Recommended for: Everybody, especially 'toon lovers.
